My friends are beginning to have babies, so to welcome their new ones into the world I've been trying to create something original and handmade. Since I'm not an expert seamstress, I've been making appliques and putting them on store-bought onsies. So far the recipients have really liked the outcome.
To Make:
Supplies:
- one plain onsie, any size or color
- small amount of fun light to medium weight cotton fabric, maybe 6"x6"
- double stick fusible web (I have the Steam-A-Seam2 kind)
- a cute and simple image, preferably a silhouette, that fits within the space of the fabric you have and within the space on the front of the onsie
- a clothes iron & ironing board
- one to two small coordinating button(s)
- a few yards of coordinating thread
- a hand sewing needle
- Following the directions on the fusible web packaging, trace the image you want onto the fusible web, making sure to draw on the correct side.
- Iron that fusible web onto your piece of fabric.
- Cut out your image from the fabric and the fusible web that are now attached to each other.
- Peel the paper off the web, leaving the sticky part on fabric.
- Arrange applique onto the front of your onsie, with sticky side down, obviously.
- Iron applique in place (if you need to, iron the front of the onsie before placing applique down and then iron on top)
- Sew around the edges with your coordinating thread (this gives it a homespun look and helps keep edges of applique from fraying).
- Sew button in for eye(s).
- Give to recipient!
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